Animal Food Quotes

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  • If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

    Passion   Men   Animal  
  • Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.

    Animal   Blood   Tears  
    Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1839). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.86
  • If beef is your idea of 'real food for real people,' you'd better live real close to a real good hospital.

    Real   Animal   Rights  
  • In the next ten years, one of the things you're bound to hear is that animal protein is one of the most toxic nutrients of all that can be considered. Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

    Food   Health   Animal  
  • Quite simply, the more you substitute plant foods for animal foods, the healthier you are likely to be.

  • in America, far too large a portion of the diet consists of animal food. As a nation, the Americans are proverbial for the gross and luxurious diet with which they load their tables; and there can be no doubt that the general health of the nation would be increased by a change in our customs in this respect.

    Animal   America   Doubt  
    Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.132, Applewood Books
  • It is significant to note that those who live on vegetarian food are less prone to diseases, whereas non-vegetarians are subject to more diseases. Why? Because animal food is incompatible with the needs of the human body.

    Animal   Needs   Body  
  • Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

  • Permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.

    Animal   Found   Produce  
  • If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing.

    Life   Death   Animal  
    Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.42, Lulu Press, Inc
  • It is true that the reluctance to abstain from animal food, in those who have been long accustomed to its stimulus, is so great in some persons of weak minds, as to be scarcely overcome; but this is far from bringing any argument in its favour

    Animal   Long   Mind  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats: Complete in One Volume”
  • I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

    Funny   Life   Leadership  
    Speech at the Reform Club, April 28, 1981.
  • I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.151, Rajpal & Sons
  • Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal.

  • I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.

    B. L. Rayner, Thomas Jefferson (1834). “Life of Thomas Jefferson: with selections from the most valuable portions of his voluminious and unrivalled private correspondence : with portrait”, p.394
  • The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, moved and lived. How could his eyes endure the slaughter when throats were slit and hides flayed and limbs torn from limb? How could his nose endure the stench? How was it that the pollution did not turn away his taste, which made contact with the sores of others and sucked juices and serums from mortal wounds?

    Eye   Men   Animal  
  • A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

    Spiritual   Food   Men  
    "George Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality". Book by Hesketh Pearson, 1942.
  • Put God behind everything-human beings, animals, food, and work. Make this a habit.

    Animal   Habit   Behinds  
  • Plant life instead of animal food is the keystone of regeneration. Jesus used bread instead of flesh and wine in place of blood at the Lord's Supper.

    Jesus   Wine   Animal  
  • A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

    Food   Health   Animal  
    Leo Tolstoy (graf) (1911). “The novels and other works of Lyof N. Tolstoï”
  • It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of the work in the world is done by men who never taste anything but vegetable, farinaceous food, and that of the simplest kind. There are more strength-producing properties in wholemeal flour, peas, beans, lentils, oatmeal, roots, and other vegetables of the same class, than there are beef or mutton, poultry or fish, or animal food of any description whatever.

    Men   Animal   Oatmeal  
  • If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

    Wall   Food   Health  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I think a strict vegetarian diet acts as a good cleansing program for people who come from a diet heavy in animal foods and processed foods. But for some people, when it goes on too long it seems to backfire.

  • Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.131, Graphic Arts Books
  • Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do.

    Michael Pollan (2009). “The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World”, p.169, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • We know we cannot defend to be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them - exploiting animals in the name of science, exploiting animals in the name of sport, exploiting animals in the name of fashion, and yes, exploiting animals in the name of food.

    Sports   Fashion   Animal  
    Cesar Chavez's acceptance speech for a Lifetime Achievement Award from "In Defense of Animals", 1992.
  • Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.

  • Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.

    Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.15, St. Martin's Press
  • I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

    Mother   Father   Animal  
    "Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.
  • I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

    Animal   Destiny   Race  
    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.
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